{"product_id":"george-washingtons-false-teeth-an-unconventional-guide-to-the-eighteenth-century-9780393337471","title":"George Washington's False Teeth: An Unconventional Guide to the Eighteenth Century","description":"George Washington was inaugurated as president in 1789 with one tooth in his mouth, a lower left bicuspid. The Father of His Country had sets of false teeth that were made of everything but wood, from elephant ivory and walrus tusk to the teeth of a fellow human. With characteristic learning and bracing insight, Robert Darnton shows us that the Enlightenment had false teeth alsothat it was not the Father of Our Modern World, responsible for all its advances and transgressions. In restoring the Enlightenment to human scale, Darnton locates its real aims, ambitions, and significance. So too with the French Revolution, another icon of the eighteenth century, approached here through the gossip, songs, and broadsides that formed the political nervous system of Paris in the Old Regime. Figures we think we knowVoltaire, Jefferson, Rousseau, Condorcet, even historians themselvesemerge afresh in Darnton's hands, their vitality, if not their teeth, intact. 17 b\/w illustrations.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Robert Darnton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e W. W. Norton \u0026amp; Company\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/01\/2003\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 228\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.52d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780393337471\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eDarnton, Robert:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Darnton\u003c\/strong\u003e is the Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor Emeritus and University Librarian Emeritus at Harvard University. His honors include a MacArthur Prize, the National Humanities Medal, the \u003cem\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/em\u003e Book Prize, and election to the French Legion of Honor. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eCensors at Work\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Great Cat Massacre\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Forbidden Bestsellers of Pre-Revolutionary France\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. W. Norton \u0026 Company","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":40353985855603,"sku":"9.78E+12","price":23.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_a4fe8e51-6f15-4309-b9d3-bc29d97fc956.jpg?v=1660227739","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/george-washingtons-false-teeth-an-unconventional-guide-to-the-eighteenth-century-9780393337471","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}